Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e9a14256f9f84835…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.4 KB Created: 2021-09-03 08:49:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: ee9424afb4a757e5d48ac6515933e239 SHA-1: 214c66ad67c54a8b400908d4eb84d5efd102c7a7 SHA-256: e9a14256f9f8483500e354c4e8cca093da1bfad43b6b7724314846ce726dbb4f
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF document contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, specifically identified as a phishing trojan. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with malware delivery or phishing campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=general+knowledge+abbreviation+list+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b309aa4638---disulodefifuraxowax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mstreatmentadvances.com/userfiles/files/wibujosetefego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sygimportaciones.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fabtg8k7472mv2g4jq1kl02tus/wozawijirisin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dirpub.org/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46678345227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://texmet.pl/userimages/file/zujuxojixekabodipuzule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://directprocessors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac3fa1a74b2---davasojususoleri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rustproofingottawa.com/userfiles/file/disubiwopakute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.garriagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160910ef152114---78504984188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dmddsgn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/55a3bf872e9352a2e1e53bd9c22a27f9/16875528022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.liveartsaskatchewan.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f5df779bce8---48291329184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpfulhunks.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611730f655d83---29305551744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tenniscanberra.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160841374e631a---26862681162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vdbergelectro.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a7125c272988a2e9fb7dfd7dc1c9d9ca/56486303912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sport-jicin.cz/dokumenty/71907152154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inter-tube.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c355453102031a77959428db26ea07f/89722997666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2f211873a7---72231874048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://classconnbio.com/img-jacson/files/11746917875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mclarenpress.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cbe8285d99---pilofewixaxejunaxubumabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esportenerd.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58507413694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imagebeaute.fr/userfiles/file/xizefexejugimuvuwinumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hb1004.com/userData/board/file/fovakuvudijefenoxisumumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samiznojmo.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89e8f7a0f66a624f30aefa176e0eafc1/26206366789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thevelascofamily.com/clients/11614/File/43232031507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaies.net/upfiles/210727031802307117gym21c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ristovski.mk/public_html/upload/userfiles/file/59531479317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e54c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE54C 18068 bytes
SHA-256: 7afe511539972b4c7d7d0cb9659d15e9627fa0dfe3e01069ea38b63d6d77f097
font_01_sfnt_off00011470.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11470 11096 bytes
SHA-256: 4c73e38a34f55c8c7d6f1bde2e200653d3cdc3a3a396ed27dee77c01cf2c0a9a
font_02_sfnt_off00012e16.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E16 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1